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deadly winter weather still wreaking havoc across the country. travel is still a nightmare. unless one of those passengers get a wild hair and decides with a group of other passengers to rent a car and drive 20 hours to their destination together. thats exactly what some of our guests tonight did. in a little while ill introduce you to this group of intrep travellers, total strangers, who had quite the adventure. they recorded their trip, and it went viral. meanwhile, 10 million peop...

Fire department, buffalo police department, have been working days on end to rescue people, putting themselves in harms way. and i just want to recognize the incredible work theyve been doing. in true buffalo spirit, despite everything thats been coming the last couple of days, you have people in the community reaching out to make sure that our first responders are taken care of, restaurateurs making sure they can go out and rescue and take care of people. >> that is really heartwarming. im glad...

>> we have had major snowplows and rescue vehicles -- i saw them myselves -- in ditches, buried in snow. >> reporter: officials urging residents, stay home. >> stay off the roads so we can continue to rescue people, get them safe, and make sure the roads are clear so we can reopen our community as soon as humanly possible. >> reporter: buffalo under a driving ban. but that hasnt stopped some from taking advantage of the situation. police have made arrests for looting. videos on social media show...

It was candy bars, batteries, individual bottles of soda, just a lot of stuff. as the night went on, it became less in the looting and just in the destruction. all of our registers were destroyed. our computers were knocked out, which is probably one of the biggest problems we have because in order to get up and running we have to make sure we have the sales system working. luckily today we did an awful lot of work with corporate save-a-lot. and theyre overnighting us some equipment. theyre goin...

Situations. >> so, chris, are there still people trapped at this hour? what are the rescue and recovery operations that are happening right now? >> theres been an ongoing effort, municipal county, state, resources have been pooling together. theyre working to to find people who may still be without power. i believe as of 7:00 tonight, there were still around 7,000 people in the city of buffalo without power. i want to give credit to national grid and the work theyve been doing, the members of th...